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spaceman
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posted 12-01-2016 03:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for spaceman   Click Here to Email spaceman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Don Thomas will be visiting the UK in 2017. School and college events are planned, and a local evening lecture in Walsall is being finalised.

A full day of activities are planned for the National Space Centre in Leicester, bookings now being taken.

Selected by NASA in January 1990, Don Thomas became an astronaut in July 1991. Don has served in the Safety, Operations Development, and Payloads Branches of the Astronaut Office. He was CAPCOM (spacecraft communicator) for Shuttle missions STS-47, 52 and 53. From July 1999 to June 2000 he was Director of Operations for NASA at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.

A veteran of four space flights, he has logged over 1,040 hours in space. He was a mission specialist on STS-65 (July 8-23, 1994), STS-70 (July 13-22, 1995), STS-83 (April 4-8, 1997) and STS-94 (July 1-17, 1997).

spaceman
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posted 01-16-2017 03:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for spaceman   Click Here to Email spaceman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Full day of activities finalised for the National Space Centre in Leicester with astronaut Don Thomas on 25th March. Tickets available via the Space Centre website and Eventbrite.

Two school visits confirmed, so far.

Evening lecture added local to us at the Calderfields Golf and Country Club, Walsall on 22nd March: Tickets available through the astronautevent website.

Help us make more of these events happen, thank you for your support.

spaceman
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posted 03-03-2017 01:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for spaceman   Click Here to Email spaceman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Only 20 days to go.

Three school visits now booked, Walsall, Kidderminster and Worcester; only one slot to fill. Tickets for the Calderfields picking up this week.

Good sales at the National Space Centre but more for the dinner would be appreciated. Space cocktails on arrival, excellent meals by award winning chefs, an excellent and professional speaker with astronaut Don Thomas all at the National Space Centre... what a combination. Details and tickets here. Thank you.

spaceman
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posted 03-04-2017 11:25 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for spaceman   Click Here to Email spaceman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The third of our Facebook competitions started this morning and ends on the 23rd March. Up for grabs a signed copy of Tim Peake's book, "Hello, Is This Planet Earth?"

Please follow the instructions on the Facebook post. Will ship worldwide if the lucky winner is outside of the U.K.

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posted 03-25-2017 06:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kite     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I went to the Q&A session at the Space Centre, Leicester this afternoon and Don Thomas was in sparkling form. He gave a short talk about his career and handled a variety of questions fully. The audience in the planetarium was of a wide range of ages and he dealt with the youngsters very well, emphasising that their generation would be the ones who would first go to Mars.

Afterwards he was happy to sign his book "Orbit of Discovery" and had a most pleasant manner. Thank you to Don and the organisers for a very enjoyable time.

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